Dog Gets Epic Last Meal before he's put down for illness

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42. Mine knows how to open up the screen door if we have the sliding glass door open.

His best tricks are getting at food and drinking water from the fridge door dispenser if we don't leave him any in his bowl. AND his fav punishment for leaving him all alone and not keeping our bedroom door open so he can lay down on his bed in our room is to take a poop or pee somewhere; doesn't matter if its just a 20 min quick trip, he will do it as a punishment for making him stay out of "his room".

And for some reason, he loves when he gets to travel with us somewhere or is going off to the groomers, but for some reason that dog knows when he's going to the vet and acts up and balks at getting into the car. How do they know when they are going to the vet? I really hope he passes peacefully in his old age laying on his bed in the comfort of his people and doesn't end up with a hip issue or cancer pain that will make us have to decide for his good to put him to sleep. He's got a few minor "cyst" type bumps. One is a bit larger on his knee, but every biopsy since he was a young age has remained a benign growth. I really hope it stays that way.

When we had to put down his sister dog Sugar, it was extremely painful, and even though my son was 3 when we had to do that, he still prays to God that S/He brings back his Sugar dog, and will even cry over missing her. He can't remember what he did last week sometimes, but he still gets upset about that dog. We did it when he was in Pre-School so that he wasn't around. And my husband and I were still hesitant if it was the right thing to do because she was family and our first pet together, but we probably did, she was having so many problems with her ears and her eyes were going bad and her hearing was bad and her temper was turning because she was loosing her senses and I think she was in pain because of the constant infections that we could never fix, but still you feel guilty having to choose to end another being's life essense. It sucks being an adult (that was both our first adult decision we had to make about ending a pet's life- no parents to make that decision).

Our Hurricane has outlived his sister by many years now, and longer than we have expected knowing the usual life span of the breed. Its going to be a tough one on us and even harder on our son.